Question 27

Q5Short answerExercise 13.2

In a family having three children, there may be no girl, one girl, two girls or three girls. So, the probability of each is . Is this correct? Justify your answer.

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No, the outcomes are not equally likely. For example, outcome ‘one girl’ means gbb, bgb, bbg ‘three girls’ means ggg and so on.